Word: circe
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Without error Christianity Today (circ. 142,000) was founded in 1956 by Billy Graham and friends in order to provide much-needed intellectual guidance for Evangelical Protestants. The magazine's urbane image suffered this year when it moved from downtown Washington, D.C., to Carol Stream, Ill., in part to be closer to the conservative Protestant heartland. Nonetheless, it has just chosen a new editor, Kenneth S. Kantzer, who comes equipped with a Harvard Ph.D. Says he: "Great ideas don't have to be incomprehensible...
...automated its neolithic production processes and spun off four new suburban editions. Sulzberger has also injected new life into the newspaper's parent New York Times Co., which embraces nine smaller dailies, four weeklies, six magazines (including Us, circ. 500,000, a four-month-old imitator of Time Inc.'s PEOPLE), two broadcast stations, three book publishers and part of three Canadian Paper mills. Once an institution more interested in public service than profit, the New York Times Co. is now on Wall Street's goodbuy lists. After several years of see-saw profits (net income was $13.6 million...
Like the New York Times, would-be use papers from the nighty New York News (circ. 2 million, the nation's largest) to the Albuquerque Journal (circ. 75,000) are launching how-to-do-it, where-to-get-it supplements. Papers that have had such news print service stations for years are allowing them more space and promoting them more heavily...
...genre that has long understood its local service? magazine functions. Though pressed by the Washington Post, the Times remains the best newspaper in the U.S. It is the platinum bar by which editors across the country measure their own papers. Except for the heavily financial Wall Street Journal (circ 1,465,000), the Times is the closest approximation in the U.S. to a national newspaper. Fully one-quarter of its readers live more than 100 miles from New York City. (One such subscriber is Jimmy
...Democratic primary for mayor: "If we go easy on the looters, we are obliterating the moral distinction between them and the vast majority of poor people who are law-abiding." As an alternative to prison, the New York Amsterdam News, the nation's largest secular black weekly (circ.: 67,000), suggested that the looters be given "a year of hard labor in the streets," rebuilding the stores they devastated...